[thelist] Page weight -- good examples of "light" sites?
David Kaufman
david at gigawatt.com
Thu Mar 27 04:49:21 CDT 2008
Hi Barry,
"Barry Woolgar" <barry at burnthebook.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello
>
>> and www.sixapart.com (62K)
>
> Are you counting all the associated 'first visit' files like CSS and JS?
I wasn't doing the counting at all, actually :-) I let Firebug's "net" tab
add it up for me :-)
www.sixapart.com
/ 5 KB 20ms
global.js 2 KB 270ms
screen.css 25 KB 320ms
sa_index_new.css 12 KB 300ms
main.css 232 b 511ms
print.css 413 b 280ms
sa_sc.js 19 KB 421ms
MovableTypeNews 434 b 420ms
-----------------------------------------
8 requests 62 KB 1.92s
> How about transfer compression? That could result in a larger site
> loading faster than a smaller site (and could potentially cause the
> 62K/112K
> disparity I see). Just a thought that its possibly not so clear.
Yup that was it. They all have Content-Encoding: gzip headers. guess
that's why their css files are only 200 - 400 *bytes* :-)
-dave
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